Debbie Harry

“Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.”

“If I were to do a foundation, it would be to promote solar energy. And I'm worried about drilling for oil. I think it is harming the earth, 'cos it drains the layer of oil under the surface,...”

“I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands.”

“I think it's a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles.”

“Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.”

“The word 'iconic' is used too frequently - an icon is a statue carved in wood. It was shocking at first, when I got that reference. It was a responsibility, and it's impossible to live up to...”

“Music has its own emotional embodiment. It carries an emotion with it. When you associate a lyric with the music, it's much easier; but when you're standing there completely dry in front of...”

“And living in a metropolitan area which is ethnically diverse, our lives are very complicated, so our emotional experiences are going to be varied like that.”

“I turned on VH1 this morning just to get a little warm-up before I came over here, and I think it's just terrific. There's so much great stuff: diverse and wonderful music, good performances...”

“I could be a housewife... I guess I've vacuumed a couple of times.”

“That was the impetus for me to do music or art, because I knew if I didn't try when I was young, then I would get to be in my 40's and I'd be really unhappy that I hadn't.”

“Music does not carry you along. You have to carry it along strictly by your ability to really just focus on that little small kernel of emotion or story.”

“Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.”

“New York has always been a city of change and a city about change, and it is a back-leading development. Nobody's going to want to come to New York if it looks like another strip mall.”

“I get myself a gig somewhere, whether it's in a club, whether it's in a bar, it doesn't matter, and I just work on New Year's Eve because I always feel it's very symbolic for me for the next...”

“I always say the new album is the best one yet. I always feel that - I really do, because it's the latest and it's the newest and it's a little bit better.”

“We wanted to enjoy what we were doing and we had business things we had to straighten out and personnel problems and it sort of took a little time to do it.”

“You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can't help it.”

“I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.”

“I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.”